{"id":23595,"date":"2010-12-23T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_minnesota_blue_service_focuses_on_grief_during_the_holidays\/"},"modified":"2010-12-23T17:34:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T17:34:06","slug":"in_minnesota_blue_service_focuses_on_grief_during_the_holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23595","title":{"rendered":"In Minnesota, &#34;Blue&#34; service focuses on grief during the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grief, anxiety and depression don\u2019t take a holiday at this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they can weigh even more heavily, according to the Rev. Bill Van Oss, rector at St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal Church in Duluth, which hosted its third annual \u201cBlue Christmas\u201d\u009d service on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to acknowledge that, for some people, Christmas and the holidays are a difficult time,\u201d\u009d Van Oss said. \u201cNot everyone has positive memories of the season.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that many people still are haunted by childhood experiences related to alcoholism, abuse or poverty in their lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/187129\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grief, anxiety and depression don\u2019t take a holiday at this time of year. In fact, they can weigh even more heavily, according to the Rev. Bill Van Oss, rector at St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal Church in Duluth, which hosted its third<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23595\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,66,183,184,436,177,380,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-tec-parishes","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}